Getting ready for the move is one of the most crucial phases of cloud migration. Organizations should determine feasibility, costs, workload analysis, and inspect codes. A service provider can help choose a methodology like replication or streaming to minimize disruption cost-effectively. Estimating cloud migration costs thoroughly is important to avoid financial issues from overestimating resources or underestimating existing capital. Verifying tool compatibility is advised as cloud technologies may not be compatible with legacy tools. Monitoring differs in the cloud via API calls. Performance should be accessed at all stages of migration through measurements and goals. Building governance for migrated workloads prevents issues like data sprawl and high costs.

1. GETTING READY FOR THE MOVE
This is one of the most crucial phases of the cloud
migration process, therefore organizations should
be prepared to gather required updates prior to the
move, such as determining feasibility of the
migration, cost implications, workload analysis, and
carrying out code inspection. A service provider
helps to choose the exact methodology for
migration, e.g. block level replication or data
streaming to minimize disruption, to be the most
cost-effective.
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ESTIMATING THE CLOUD
MIGRATION COST
Cloud migration can cause you suffer financially if
not estimated thoroughly. Many organizations tend
to overestimate the resources that might be
required or fail to sometimes consider the capital
already spent on-premises. Either of these errors
can lead to severely inaccurate migration plans.
Therefore, having an accurate estimate can help
you to change plans to maximize value.
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VERIFYING TOOL COMPATIBILITY
It is advisable to check that the monitoring tools are
compatible and credible in the cloud. Some of the
cloud native technologies may not be compatible
with the traditional toolsets. For instance—
infrastructure and application monitoring are
different in the cloud and are primarily executed via
API calls; legacy toolsets were not designed to
integrate with these.
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ACCESSING PERFORMANCE AT
ALL STAGES
To assess performance it is important to keep an
eye at each stage of migration before, during and
after to get an accurate picture. There should be a
well-thought-out list of measurements with clear
goals to meet. For instance, percentage utilization is
an important metric in the cloud world.
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BUILDING A GOVERNANCE MODEL
Shifting workloads to the cloud without a proper
governance structure and oversight usually lead to
data sprawl, inadequate data protection, high costs,
and audit findings. Organizations should have a
governance model in place for the larger cloud
strategy of the migrated workloads.
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